College of Science and Engineering

On a geological scale, the time that lapsed between when Niki and Doug Clark met each other and when they started to date was infinitesimally small.

Doug, an associate professor of geology at Western Washington University, and Niki, an EMT for Whatcom County Fire District 8, first crossed…

Something is killing starfish up and down the West Coast and no one knows what.

A mysterious illness that first appeared in June in Washington state has now spread from Sitka, Alaska, to San Diego. Starfish first waste away and then "turn into goo," divers say. Whatever is…

Here’s a novel idea that could flip high-school science education on its head:

Instead of teaching biology as the first course for high-school freshmen, start instead with physics.

That’s one of the many ideas burbling from the mind of Scott Linneman, a geology professor at Western…

In their waterproof orange overalls, Hannah Perlkin and Emily Tucker look like commercial fishermen or storm-ready sailors. But they are biologists on their way to tide pools along a remote stretch of northern California coast. There they are searching for the cause of a mysterious and…

Mark Omodt, a Mathematics instructor at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, was honored recently for teaching excellence by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC).

Since joining the faculty in 1994, Omodt has taught nearly every Math course…